Women and Work in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences, challenges and ways forward
- Author: Parker, Jane et al (Eds.)
- ISBN: 9781991016034
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Working women everywhere face discrimination. Inequality and lack of inclusion is
reinforced through regulation, policy, behaviours and attitudes. Although there has
been progress in some countries, gender equality has yet to be achieved by any
nation.
This in-depth study examines the challenges faced by working women, their
families and communities in ten countries throughout Asia and the Pacific:
Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Fiji,
Pakistan and the Philippines.
Informed by the work of senior academics, policy-makers and community group
representatives, and with a foreword by Elizabeth Broderick AO, independent
expert, for the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, United
Nations Human Rights Council, working women's experiences are described
and analysed within a framework of four themes: demography, globalisation,
technological development and sustainability.
Drawing on this wide range of qualitative and quantitative evidence, the authors set
out recommendations for co-ordinated and context-sensitive responses specific to
each country to improve the working lives of women and girls.